tulips

May 19

Happy Monday everyone on this Victoria Day in Canada, and a special thank you to Suze of SLR (See Love Remember) for her great advice in her post for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring –

Oh, and the trick to keeping your tulip bouquet last for a long time: put them in a vase with only about an inch of water, refilling when needed. This prevents them from opening up completely, after which they usually quickly wither.

Thanks Suze; it worked brilliantly as you can see.

A Tulipology

So sorry it’s all over between us this year…


…but I promise I’ll be waiting for you next year. The memory of your beautiful pink and purple petals will just have to keep me going until then…

Easter Monday Bouquet: April 21

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I thought I would post this Monday bouquet early for dear friends and followers across the other side of the world for whom Easter Monday is almost over.

Today’s Blogging 201 assignment is to integrate features to draw traffic to older content on our blogs. I have added a top posts and pages widget in my sidebar and a related posts feature at the end of the page with images.  Hope you like these additions. Let me know what you think.

 Happy Easter weekend  🙂    

Confessions of a Tulipolic


All right! I confess. I am a tulipolic.

Now I think this needs a little explanation. For the next two weeks I have joined the “Blogging University” at The Daily Post in a course entitled Blogging 201: Branding and Growth. Today we have been asked to audit our blogs, and one of the assignments is to add or update our taglines to give more context to our various titles. Now, since I don’t have a tagline and haven’t had one since I started blogging almost a year ago, this seemed to be the perfect time to finally put pen to paper and write one.

Nothing concentrates the mind more than to explain in one short sentence the “meaning of the life”, which leads me to today’s task.

For those of you who have been following my blog, and let me say I love you all, my use of the word Tulipolic will be very clear. If you are visiting for the first time I think the gallery of photos is all that is necessary together with a visit to my Monday Bouquet. The arts in the tagline of course refers to photography, painting, writing and anything else that inspires the creative spirit residing in all of us and which is forever changing.

So there you have it, a tagline together with an accompanying new header image and the completion of today’s assignment.  Do I hear a drum role?…

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